“The fun of ‘Saturday Night Live’ was always you never knew which way they leaned politically. You kind of assumed they would lean more left and liberal, but now the cat’s out of the bag, they are completely against Trump, which I think makes it less interesting because you know the direction the piece is going.

“Carvey played it respectfully. To me, the genius of Dana Carvey [who repeatedly portrayed George H.W. Bush in the early 1990s] was Dana always had empathy for the people he played, and Alec Baldwin has nothing but a fuming, seething anger toward the person he plays.”

In other words, poking fun and making political jokes is one thing. But Baldwin has been outed as nothing but a hateful little man.